Police briefs: Sunday

Several vehicles were stolen in Belleville Saturday, though all were recovered later in the day.

It began at about 7:04 a.m. when one driver was inside the Petro Canada gas station on Cannifton Road to pay for gas. A man left a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck jumped into the customer’s 2006 grey Silverado and fled the station.

“The stolen vehicle was later involved in another theft of gas in the Kawartha Lakes region at approximately 10 a.m.,” Belleville Police Staff Sgt. Al Portt reported in a press release. Kawartha Lakes OPP are investigating that incident.

Yet Dufferin OPP found the truck at 11:55 p.m. outside Orangeville – where it had rolled through a ditch. Police arrested a man nearby. As of early Sunday the man had refused to identify himself. The investigation continues.

Saturday’s second reported theft occurred at 3:27 p.m. when an owner reporter her car had been taken without her consent from the Dundas Street East area. Police soon found the car in a ditch along Highway 62 north of Foxboro. Centre Hastings OPP are now investigating.

And at 10:54 p.m., a truck was reported stolen from the Herchimer Avenue area. Police found it parked on nearby Haig Road. It was reunited with its owner. No charges are expected, Portt wrote.

Rowdy bar patron

A 64-year-old Prince Edward County man has been charged with public intoxication following a disturbance early Sunday at a bar on Belleville’s Bridge Street West.

Police became involved at 2:24 a.m. when staff reported a customer was throwing bar stools.

“He was still challenging other males to fight when police arrived on scene,” Staff Sgt. Al Portt reported in a press release.

There were no injuries.

City police do not normally release the names of those charged with provincial offences.